Kayan

Endonyms

Kayan, Kayan

Alternate Names

Kayan, Kayang, Ka-Yun, Lahwi, “Long-Necked Karen” (pej.), “Padaung” (pej.), “Padaung Karen” (pej.)

Identifiers
ISO code

pdu

Glottocode

kaya1315

Metadata
Countries of origin

Myanmar

Also spoken in

Myanmar

Writing systems

Latin

Linguistic genealogy

Sino-Tibetan

EGIDS Status

6a - Vigorous

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